Identifying High Quality Websites

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When can you trust what you find on the Internet?

  • I understand how the ease of publishing on the Internet might affect how much I can trust the content of certain websites.
  • I can learn criteria that will help evaluate a websites.
  • I can apply this criteria to determine how trustworthy and useful a website is.
  • VOCABULARY
    • Publish - to present a finished piece of work to the public
    • Trustworthy - accurate and dependable
    • Evaluate - to carefully examine something to figure out its value.
    • Criteria - standards on which you base a judgement or decision.

Work with a partner to evaluate your chosen website using the given criteria and 30 point test from your "Before You Trust Handout". Get a score for your website and be ready to discuss the results with the rest of the class.

1. Wikipedia: Year-round School
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year-round_school

2. PBS NewsHour: Year-Round School Commits to Students from Middle SChool to Last Day of College
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/american-graduate/july-dec12/scholars_08-21.html

3. About.com Year-Round Education: Pros and Cons
http://712educators.about.com/cs/reformtime/a/yearrounded.htm

4. Family Education: Year-Round Schooling
http://school.familyeducation.com/experimental-education/educational-research/41266.html?detoured=1

5. The National Association of Year-Round Education
http://www.nayre.org/

6. Stop Year-Round School
http://www.auburn.edu/~enebasa/html/home.pp.html

7. The New York Times: “Classes the Year Round Pass the Test for Many”
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/08/us/education-classes-the-year-round-pass-the-test-for-many.html